A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion: Tingling with menace and mystery - book review -
A Crooked Tree This spur-of-the-moment decision will have far-reaching and devastating consequences not just for 12-year-old Ellen Gallagher but for her four siblings, an unruly family growing up in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania in the 1980s. Welcome to A Crooked Tree, the rich and atmospheric debut novel from Una Mannion, a writer who was born in Philadelphia but now lives in County Sligo in Ireland, and who thrills us with this resonant, moving and gripping coming-of-age tale set in the days when playtime meant roaming free, and the obsession with technology had not started to erode c...